Fire and Ice: Titanic Mourning Postcard, 1912

February 15, 2012

Many survivors remembered that the Titanic’s eight musicians played the hymn “Nearer My God to Thee” immediately before the ship sank. The hymn became a popular theme on Titanic memorial postcards. None of the musicians survived.

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